Box: F

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Leaflet likely came with membership renewal letter in 1954 which was intended for Mildred Bliss.

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Deposit receipt for the National Bank of Washington, Washington, D.C. for $211.69. On verso is written in ink: "Nothing is lost and all is harvest in the end".

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Typescript letter from Theresa Garrett Eliot (Mrs. Henry Ware Eliot) to Mildred Bliss asks her opinion on a sample of carpet for the Dickenson Room. William Jackson approves of it and it is within budget. She also asks for Mildred Bliss's ideas on the floor and wall treatment.

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Handwritten letter from Fleda Straight Myers to Isabel Denison offers her an estimate for book restoration work and a description of what she would do for the three volumes.

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Exhange of typescript letters between Frederick Goff, Chief of Rare Book Division of Library of Congress and Mildred Bliss. Goff sends a page from a catalog that lists a rare book for sale. Elsa Needham offers thanks and appreciation on behalf of Mildred Bliss.

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Handwritten picture postcard from Donna Topazia Caetani Markevitch to Mildred Bliss sends her apologies for being unable to attend the Nadia Boulanger concert because her husband Igor is giving a concert on the same day.

Scope and Contents: Exchange of letters between Robert Patterson and Anne Sweeney about the plans, correspondence, and photographs that were sent from Reef Point. Patterson writes, "I presume that the first thing is to separate the sheep from the goats and see what is worth keeping and what should be thrown out, such as blueprints when the originals are also there, and that sort of thing. The other material, the correspondence, photographs, and so on, should have been there before this but no doubt you will see...

Scope and Contents: Typescript letter with handwritten signature by Alden Hopkins to Mildred Bliss tells her it was a pleasure meeting with her during his last visit to Dumbarton Oaks and going over the landscape of the Ellipse and it's planting and design problems. He is planning on being at Dumbarton Oaks on April 7. He has an appointment with Helen Van Pelt Wilson who is the author of numerous garden books and who wants to gather material for an article in Flower Grower Magazine on Dumbarton Oaks. He feels...